Taken from Day26 in November 2009's bootcamp:
List 3 things about icraft that you like and would share with another seller.
[1] I love being able to quote in any currency.
[2] I like the fee structure in terms of being able to pay all upfront and get a discount for it. No commission is SUPER nice too. iCraft gets security in what they are going to earn each month and I get security in what I`m going to pay!
[3] I can only list up to 50 items, so I dont' know how it is for more than that, but I love how my shops shows EVERYthing on the first page. No pages to sift through - you can see at a glance if I have anything of interest to you. Time is PRECIOUS to internet shoppers!
And a new one:
[4] Because of the monthly fee structure, and only 5 listings for free, it wards off the non-business serious people. There are FAR fewer, what I will call, "hobbyists" here, while this loosely defined category contains more than just true hobbyists.
There are good reasons for not caring about getting a fair price and pricing for cash value instead, but not business ones. Hobby reasons, philanthropic reasons, many reasons! I am not discounting those purposes in the least!
But I am here to run a business. I pay to list because I want to EARN profits. Thank-you, iCraft, for a built in way of minimizing non-business oriented crafters.
In everyone else's defense, though, if I was dead serious about running a business, I would have my own shopping cart system on my own website and promote it night and day, yadda yadda. But I do already have a professional career. Crafting is an outlet. Hopefully, one day, a retirement business! So I'm treating it like a business from the get-go with whatever time I can spare, and I am thankful for shop front providers who do the pixels and bytes for me, like iCraft!
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